The book is loosely organized in two parts: the first part covers the theory of
distributed systems, the second half contains three special
examples of distributed systems. The first example shows how
a multimedia conferencing system can be built as a distributed application,
the second, how management can modeled as a distributed application. Management
of a Distributed System is a complex embedded system and requires
handles in all parts of the system.
stresses our architectural design is Multimedia Conferencing.
The final example will show how a distributed file
system have been built as an example user application.
Chapter 11 is about a more complex problem, that of load balancing in
distributed systems, and is aimed at the research-minded reader.
The last chapter is a discussion of some of the
problems that are considered unsolved or worthy of further research in
distributed systems